My initial research interest was in second language acquisition and pedagogy. I focused on investigating L2 learners’ pragmatic competence for several years, and proceeded by relating pragmatic research to translation studies and published in this area. I’m currently conducting research projects that use a contrastive approach to investigate differences between Chinese and English in terms of linguistics and discourse properties, using both comparative and parallel corpora.

Courses Regularly Taught

Translation-related subjects at the UM, at both undergraduate and graduate levels:

ENGB280 Language Studies for Translation

ENGB281 Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation

ENGB381 Translation for the Media

ENGB382 Translation of Business and Legal Writings

TRSL700 Comparative Language Studies for Translation

TRSL763 Translation for Administration and Commerce

Supervised students of both MA in translation and MA in applied English studies, and began to supervise PhD student from Auguest 2016.

Introduction

Vincent Wang joined the University of Macau as an assistant professor in 2007. He had taught English and translation subjects for five years at a tertiary institution in Macau before joining the Department of English, UM. He also worked in the industrial world for some years in France, Beijing and Macau for Companie Generale de Chauffe, and practised technical and commercial translation (between French, English and Chinese) and oral interpreting for business meetings. He practises translation in Macau, and has performed simultaneous interpreting for more than ten conferences (between English, Mandarin and Cantonese).

Wang, V. X. (2012). Computer-assisted discourse analysis: Cohesion in Obama’s speech and two translations. Paper presented at the International Roundtable Seminar on Discourse and Translation, The University of Macau.